Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 16
“How are things with you, master?” asked Mac an Da’v.
Who acts: things · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: things, Da’v · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 things | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 things | cop |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 things | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 master | punct |
| 8 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 things | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 things | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 things | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Da’v | det |
| 14 | Da’v | Da'v | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | things and master | with a Da’v = da'v | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | things and master | a Da’v | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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